1. What is a healthy relationship?
Relationships
What is a healthy relationship?

2. Love Why do we fall in love? Love adds richness to our lives
Love is different for parents, family, friends, and significant others
Ability to feel romantic love develops during adolescence

3. Qualities of Love Love has 3 main qualities:
Attraction, closeness, and commitment
Attraction- the “chemistry” part of love
Closeness- the bond that develops when you share thoughts and feelings
Commitment- promise or decision to stick with the person
Can be combined in different ways for different relationships
Closeness without attraction is like a best friend
Attraction without closeness is like a crush
Attraction and closeness combined is romantic love
If commitment develops the relationship will last. If not, it will end. Some high school relationships last, many don’t.

4. What makes a good relationship?
After the initial attraction, closeness develops
Ways closeness develops are by:
Learning to give and receive
Revealing feelings
Listening and supporting

5. Why do relationships end?
Not enough time to give to the relationship
Life takes you on separate paths
Priorities change
Moving on
The end of a relationship can be painful
Seek support
Time

6. Am I in a Healthy Relationship?
What makes a healthy relationship?
Mutual respect
Trust
Honesty
Support
Fairness/equity
Separate identities
Good communication

7. What’s an Unhealthy Relationship?
Mean, disrespectful, controlling behavior
Warning signs- Does you boyfriend/girlfriend:
Get angry when you don’t drop everything for them?
Criticize the way you look or dress?
Keep you from your friends or talking to members of the opposite sex?
Want you to quit an activity you love?
Ever raise a hand when they are angry like they are going to hit you?
Try to force you to go further sexually than you are comfortable with?

8. Sources http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/relationships/love.html#